
Judith Jarvis Thomson’s ”A Defense of Abortion”
Theory & Philosophy
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Is There a Right to Be in Your House?
In a world in which abortion was rendered illegal, people do not have the right to their own bodily autonomy. This is not to consider how that might infringe upon some one else's own bodily atonomy. And she also considers a sort of funny situation where she considers henry faunda, who is an old actor in western films. She says that she imagines the situation in which she's about to die, and she won't die if he just touchess the back of his hand to her brow - even though it be no inconvenience for him. But you cannot possibly believe that he should have an obligation to give himself, his body, in any way shaperform,
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